Chapter 34

Marceline's face went pale. Her chest felt like it had been ripped open, leaving a gaping hole where cold wind poured in relentlessly. Her finger tightened slowly around the spoon, and her lips pressed into a thin line. Selene was still clueless about what had happened to Lyana. A year after Curtis's engagement with Jenna was ruined, Lyana fell into a vegetative state. Everyone claimed that Marceline had pushed her down the stairs. She had been at the scene and couldn't defend herself. Worse still, eyewitnesses testified that she had reached out in a state of panic. The surveillance footage had also captured the moment, and no one cared to hear her side of the story. Not long after that incident, Curtis married her, and the whole ordeal had caused an uproar. Given what happened to Lyana, everyone assumed Curtis would cut ties with her for good. A year had passed since the drugging scandal. Although Curtis had declared at the engagement party that he would marry Marceline, there